corn
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- : Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- : the grain, seeds, or kernels of this plant, used for human food or for fodder.
- : the ears of this plant.
- : the edible seed of certain other cereal plants, especially wheat in England and oats in Scotland.
- : the plants themselves.
- : sweet corn.
- : corn whiskey.
- : Skiing. corn snow.
- : Informal. old-fashioned, trite, or mawkishly sentimental material, as a joke, a story, or music.
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- : to preserve and season with salt in grains.
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Despite plentiful rice, corn and wheat, China remains dependent on imported soybeans and is facing a pork shortage.
Do not underestimate this seat in the shape of a corn-on-the-cob by Third Drawer Down, an Australian home goods company.
But, now, with August wrapping up, my mind swirls again to thoughts about how an ear of corn in my home could also help me savor summer for just a while longer.
The corn is then washed and peeled, and left to dry for 12 hours before it’s ground with stones made from volcanic rock.
You’ve got surplus corn and you’ve got a demand for easy, convenient sweetener in the food sector.
For the uninitiated, the film is set on a future Earth whose crops (save corn) have been wiped out by a mysterious blight.
I certainly found it very helpful when I realized we were going to have to grow our own corn.
That must have been some corn for her to remember it 50 years later!
Hilbert was a flashy man who helicoptered five miles daily over corn fields to and from the office.
He is perfectly capable of introducing a bill requiring all cars to run on corn stalks instead of gasoline.
The man with the automobile, the corn-cure, and the baby grew to be legendary in the villages of Provence.